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[Somatek]

I imagine it’s similar to my buddies nugsmasher in terms of use; relatively easy to use as it’s much harder to jack the pressure up too high, too quickly and cause blow outs.

What temps do you press flower and hash at and for how long?

For flower I use 82.5C and slowly ramp the pressure up to 5 tons over a couple mins with 30sec to a min at full pressure keeping an eye on the rosin flow.  I appreciate having the pressure gauge as once I find the right times for pressing a batch I can easily replicate it without having to guess about the pressure.  Although I imagine if you’re using it often you’d get a feel, borrowing my friends and also using one of the wheel crank designs (horrible machines) made it confusing seeing widely different results when the times were the same.

I actually laughed at the last comment as it reminded me of a friend back in Guelph.  Every time he’d come press it was more and more, first time was like 7g of hash, then it was just under 14, last time was right around an ounce of hash that gushed streams.  Also apparently out the back as I found a couple grams of rosin that had leaked down the back of the plate lol.